SILENCE QUOTES V

quotations about silence

So scream your heart out
You are the chosen
You got to show them
Silence is the enemy
Scream it out loud
We are the broken
We got to show them
Silence is the enemy

PAPA ROACH

"Silence Is the Enemy"


In positions of power, silence is not an option.

MAGNUS LINKLATER

"In positions of power, silence is not an option", The Times, September 3, 2017


If silence is golden like they say it be
If silence is golden then how rich I must be

LYNN ANDERSON

"If Silence Is Golden"


What scientists have discovered is that silence allows an area of the brain, called the hippocampus, to do what it does best. And since the hippocampus is where our memories are stored and where we process our emotions ... it is critical to learning. Silence gives this really important part of the brain the opportunity to process, consolidate and strengthen itself.

JUSTIN COULSON

The Advertiser, August 29, 2017


Often silence is a powerful weapon. If we only knew how valiantly it could serve us in defense we should use it more. Under abuse or attack it may be the sign of guilt; but it may also be a proof of innocence and an unmistakable evidence of nobility.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays

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There are unfortunates who never realize the beauty of silence, the restless ones. Wherever they are they destroy it. They chronically feel an incessant desire to fill up all the crevices of time with sound. They contribute to the vast sum of disease in the world. They are themselves diseased. They lack one of the most precious blessings of health, balance of qualities that give poise, expressing itself in love of peace, in silence.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays


Here may be the real secret of silence. It may lie in the quality of impression that we receive in our consciousness. If we allow ourselves to be impressed by ugly things, by thoughts of strife and bitterness and hate, there is no silence for us. But if we receive only impressions of beauty and love, then we need never be afraid. In ourselves we shall find the companionship of peace. We shall be constantly solaced with silence.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities


Your silence will not protect you.

AUDRE LORDE

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches


Silence is golden, so they say. Except that silence, in a moral dilemma, represents complicity, as it does in a general legal -- or in a criminal -- matter. We are thus, presuming that we are moral beings, faced with a binary choice: remain silent or speak out. Each choice has consequences, and the path followed, its own implications.

ALAIN TSCHUDIN

"When silence is not golden", News 24, August 6, 2017


There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Winter's Tale


There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave--under the deep, deep sea,
Or in wide desert where no life is found,
Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound.

THOMAS HOOD

"Silence"

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Oh Mary of silence
You pick my heart with a smile
Oh sweet Mary
Come inside for a while
Help me get a hold on you

MAZZY STAR

"Mary of Silence"


Silence is silence -- though it may speak volumes.

JOHN MCTERNAN

"Why Big Ben's silence upsets so many Brits", CNN, August 21, 2017


There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.

HORACE

Carmina

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Silence must be heard.

ENIGMA

"Silence Must Be Heard"


I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.

ELSA BARKER

Songs of a Vagrom Angel

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Silence is the safety zone of conversation.

ARNOLD H. GLASOW

attributed, Reader's Digest, 1975


Silence has many beauties.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, The Sons of Aleus

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Silence is so freaking loud.

SARAH DESSEN

Just Listen

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Be silent or say something better than silence.

PYTHAGORAS

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical